Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholars with bats and balls and footballs." This does not mean, as many Freshman of today might leap to conclude, that they had to seek out their mentors with bat and ball. It merely explains that they were expected to supply their superiors with such articles upon demand...
...regular schedule of deputations has been arranged and put through. In past years only two or three teams have been sent out to various schools in the vicinity of Boston, but the work of this year's committee has far exceeded former records. To meet the ever-increasing demand from the towns in the surrounding territory for visits from men of college training, and to give an added opportunity for members of the University to work in this field. 18 trips have been planned this year, all but seven of which have already taken place. Not only has interest among...
...storm center of controversy was emphasized by the award, were regarded as worthless, and the boundary lines of Chile, Peru, and Bolivia in that territory were but roughly defined. Then the spread of scientific farming methods, and the inadequacy of the South American guano deposits to meet the demand for fertilizing nitrates, led to the discovery and exploitation of the vast desert deposits in the Tacna-Arica districts...
...demand again shows an increase, while 1925 production does not continue to increase, there is strong likelihood that recent raises in oil prices will be maintained and even be increased, despite considerable political protest in Western and Southern states. New oil fields, rather than political activities, seem at present the best possibility as a cause of lower oil prices...
...tell the boys that I may seem a natural boy scout in the way I want to help them understand, but I want to explain the theatre to them. And the business of the theatre is creating something by thinking theatrically. It is a business, too, of supply and demand. Just now the demand is not as lofty as it might be, but that is the newspapers' business...